A jacket that can help you withstand not only the coldest temperatures on Earth, but also on Titan, the Saturn's moon, has now come to the market.

 

With average surface temperatures of -179 deg C, Titan is twice as cold as anything recorded on Earth. It also has methane monsoons and cryovolcanoes spewing out jets of freezing hydrocarbon rain.

 

The Titan Fleece Jacket from Vollebak combines an ultra-warm fleece on the inside with the strongest fibre in the world on the outside. It even has a magnetic zip with an emergency pull cord for blizzards.

 

The company says its mission to turn the world’s toughest fibre into the world’s warmest fleece took us to Germany, the land of engineering. 

 

The jacket's main outer material is made in Germany with 60% Dyneema, 35% polyester, 5% elastane. The second outer material is made in Italy with 100% polyamide and the lining is made in the US by Polartec with 100% polyester (74% recycled).

 

The jacket's outer body is highly abrasion resistant and can survive a 45kmph fall and drag on concrete, the company claims.

 

It has a magnetic front zipper with oversized pull cord. The jacket weighs 1,350 grams and can be machine washed. The jacket is priced £995 ($1,232).

 

"To make soft fabric you need really thin fibres. So we took bundles of Dyneema fibres and heated them up, stretched them out and broke them over and over again to make them as thin as possible. We then spun these ultra-thin fibres into a yarn with a small amount of polyester and elastane on a circular knitting machine. The result is a Dyneema fleece with a 3 dimensional honeycomb structure that’s unlike anything ever seen before," says the company. - TradeArabia News Service